Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

Mr. Bayless to the President of Peru.

Washington, October 29, 1912.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the courteous note of September 23, 1912, from His Excellency Señor A. B. Leguia, ex-President of the Republic, in which His Excellency is good enough to appoint me, jointly with Doctor George M. Converse, engineer for the sanitation of the city of Iquitos, Peru.

I am glad to inform you that I accept the position and that I shall leave New York for Iquitos on November fifth.

Very respectfully,

Samuel E. Bayless.